Guard Your Heart

I recently had a small chat with my almost 5 year old son. I was using a hand drill to make a hole in the wall in the house and he said “I am scared” and then he ran away to hide. I then followed him and nicely explained to him, that I am not going to raise any cowards in the house. The word “scared” is banned in our house, so are the words, “I am afraid, I cant, I am confused…”. It then occurred to me that, the cartoons he has been watching are characterised by scary scenes, aliens, super heroes and villains. The stuff he had been watching was giving him a fearful disposition! The likelihood of a Mr Life Coach raising a timid young man is out of question for me. I decided there and then that no more useless cartoons to pollute the young man’s gullible spirit.

What is my point? Like children we are a product of the information we allow into our lives. This information forms strongholds and imaginations which can either make or break our lives. It finds its way into our spirits, and begins to affect our minds, and ultimately our actions. It is no wonder the wise Solomon said “Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it for are the issues of life”.

The Headquarters of Your Life

In the article last week I shared about, Success Consciousness. It is important for us to locate the place of the heart in relation to consciousness. The heart is the centre of all the operations of human life. It is the home of our personal life, hence we are all described, according to our heart e.g wise, wicked, upright and good. The heart is also the seat of the conscience. It influences the whole life and character. As the central organ in the body it is the centre of moral, spiritual, intellectual life. Heart is the place in which the process of self-consciousness is carried out, in which the soul is at home with itself, and is conscious of all its doing. The degree to which you can be victorious in any endeavour in life is determined by how much heart you have. The quality of your life reflects the quality of your heart. The quality of your heart is determined by the quality of what you have allowed into your heart. Have you been guarding your heart like treasure? If it is the headquarters of your life you will be more jealous about what you allow into your heart.

 Access Denied

There is stuff which should know that your heart is a no go area. There are newspapers and magazines which are full of hate speech, lies, negative news and images. You read them they affect your whole day. They fill your spirit with bitterness, hopelessness, fear, hatred and anger. The same goes for certain TV and radio programmes. Make no time for these. They pollute your mind and spirit and create a negative force field around you. Strongholds and negative imaginations begin to form in your mind. You see doom and gloom. Your creative capacity is reduced and you work with negative scenarios, paradigms and strategies. I call this a negative thinking mode. Politics is another area which is so emotive and draining. If you are not a politician I advise you to limit yourself to voting only. Leave the political analysts to theorise about political events. Never tie your destiny to social, economic and political events and processes, you will be so disappointed or so surprised. Even harmless looking events like soccer can affect your spirit. Movies are another area which you ought to be careful about. Apart from being a waste of time (mine is borrowed), they reinforce certain wrong stereotypes (especially soaps) and make one live in a make believe world.  Do not hang around whiners and winchers or engage in a pity party. You will soon develop ulcers or have a heart attack if you are not careful.

 Access Allowed

Stop meditating on sickness, poverty, inflation and problems. This is what will flow from your heart because you are sowing the wrong seeds. No wonder, some have nightmares everyday. Set the circumstances of your dreams. Thick success, love, health and peace. Don’t allow things to happen to you, you must happen to things. Stop looking for greener pastures, create green pastures. Think possibilities. Imagine things. You look at your currency and you think it’s useless. No a thousand times no!  Look at your money as a seed and watch it grow in value. The power of a seed is not in its size. If you catch this truth, you will never again allow the Central Bank to determine the value of your money.  Words break us, words build us. You need to feed your heart with the right material in terms of good books, audio and video material. I count the Bible as the greatest motivational material one could ever lay hands on for both reactive and proactive purposes.

 Be jealous about all the avenues to your heart.  Treasure it like a jewel, and tend it like a vineyard.

 Wish you and all that is yours good thoughts!

Success Consciousness

I made some interesting observation after the retirement of Fidel Castro. For 49 years, he lived with a single consciousness – socialism. He never turned left or right. He was strong in his beliefs. Socialism is in his blood. Even when the whole world moved to a new order, he remained steeped in his ideology. That is the consciousness he chose. He was in his own world. As individuals we all have a consciousness. The way you see your world determines the way you respond to circumstances, deal with issues and relate to others. Be it bad politics, battered economy, bad marriage, lousy job, struggling ministry or business. Consciousness is important because it gives you anchors and sails to withstand the winds and waves of life and the sails as you chart the course of your life.

What Is Success Consciousness

Success means achievement, victory, triumph, winning or accomplishment. Consciousness is an awareness of one’s personal identity or collective identity including attitudes, beliefs and sensitivities considered characteristic of a person or group. Success consciousness is therefore the characteristic identity, attitudes, beliefs and sensitivities consistent with a victor, winner or achiever. Your consciousness creates a force field around your life. This force field can either be negative or positive. Do you have the right identity, attitude, beliefs and sensitivities which make you a winner in life and create a positive force field?

Identity

Your identity refers to your uniqueness, distinctiveness, personality and character. This is who you are. When you have a consciousness of your identity, that is , who you are it changes the way you talk, walk or act. If you know you are a winner or a king in life you act like one. You are not ordinary and you are not a victim to what affects the ordinary man. It’s a choice about your identity. Refuse to see yourself being subject to what everyone is subject to – failure, poverty or inflation. Have a unique identity – a winner and kingly identity. Be sure about your identity the same way you are conscious about being a male or female. This will change the way you look at life.

Attitude

Attitude refers to your thoughts, mindset, approach, stance, manner or outlook. A king in life is trained differently from a commoner. You don’t talk the common language. A king blesses and does not curse. The characteristic attitude of success comprises of three things namely faith, love and hope. Have faith in the great plan that the Creator has for your life. Faith is calling real what you have seen afar off in hope. Hope is belief in the future and in your goals. Pursue it with love. Love means no anger, no resentment and no complaining. An attitude of faith, love and hope is living from the inside out. You can write and frame your expectations. You no longer get weighed down by inflation figures, economy, politics, troubled marriage or struggling business.

Beliefs

Beliefs are your philosophy, viewpoint, idea or values. I believe life should never be up and down. It should be always up. I believe that everyone is a success. I believe that no one should struggle in life. What is my point? My point is that I most surely believe this to a point of stubbornness. I have a perfect understanding of these beliefs and I could explain clearly to anyone why I believe. It is my desire that anyone I speak to would have certainty about these beliefs I have about life. Beliefs are important because they influence the way you respond to life, the choices you make and eventually where your life goes. What are your beliefs?

Sensitivities

Sensitivities can be defined as the capacity to respond and the degree of that response to our environment and or to others. What are you alive to and what really awakens you? Winners have a kingly spirit, and they empathise with the needs of others, identify with the weak and are touched by their bruises. We don’t need despots and dictators because everyone must be a winner. You are so strong, yet you condescend to their weakness. That is a winner spirit. However you can not be everything to everyone but yourself. Touch the lives of those you have to touch. Be a champion for a cause that is in your pathway. Change your life and the life of others. Be sensitive to lack. Poverty is not the absence of required necessity; it is a confession of inability.

Overwhelming blessings!